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First Tuesdays: Themed Monthly Poetry Workshop SDWI

While the poetry we write starts as a conversation with the Self, it inevitably becomes a conversation with Other Poets. If we are lucky, that conversation extends itself in front of an audience of Enthusiastic Readers. Come up out of your basement,…

November Gratitudes and December Offerings

 The Gratitudes November marks the one-year anniversary of the publication of my first book of poetry, November Butterfly. I am deeply grateful to Ruth Thompson and Don Mitchell of Saddle Road Press. What a beautiful year it has been, full…

Submission Sunday: Salvage Your December, in Person at San Diego Writers, Ink

Most writers I know are pretty grumpy around holiday time—don’t get me wrong—we love our friends and our families. We just also really love to write. Come join me on Sunday, December 20 to brainstorm potential submisison targets for the…

Poetry Play: A Tour of the Forms in Person with San Diego Writers, Ink

Do you haiku? Every written a haibun, aubade, or villanelle? Want to try your hand at a sestina or a sonnet? During this six-week workshop we will fearlessly and playfully write our way towards working drafts of as many of the forms as we can. We’ll…